 I let the refracted light fall perpendicularly upon a sheet of white paper at the opposite wall of the chamber, and observed the figure and dimensions of the solar image formed on the paper by that light. This image was oblong and not oval, but terminated...  A Treatise on Geometrical Optics - Page 160by Robert Alfred Herman - 1900 - 344 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Isaac Newton - 1730 - 432 pages
...Leftiones Opticnc, Part 1. Seft. I. $ id. f iff. II. J 29. and Sea. HI. Prof. 25. gure gure and Dimenfions of the Solar Image formed on the Paper by that Light....Semicircular Ends. On its Sides it was bounded pretty diftinctly, but on its Ends very confufedly and indiftinctly, the Light there decaying and vanifhing... | |
 | Isaac Newton - 1730 - 403 pages
...Seft. I. ยง 10. $(0. II. $ 29, and Seff.Ill. Prt>$. 25. gure and Dimeniions of the Solar Image fomu ed on the Paper by that Light. This Image was Oblong...Semicircular Ends. On its Sides it was bounded pretty diftinctly, but on its Ends very confufedly and indiftinctly, the Light there decaying and vanifhing... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 804 pages
...purpose ; and inordinate or unlike ones must have been not only less elegant, but unequal. Bay. I'ins image was oblong and not oval, but terminated with...rectilinear and parallel sides and two semicircular ends. firwton. Calm the disorders of thy mind, by reflecting on the wisdom, equity, and absolute rectitude... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...this purpose ; and inordinate or unlike ones must have been not only less elegant, but unequal. Kay, This image was oblong and not oval, but terminated with two rectilinear and parallel tides and two semicircular ends. A'ewfon. Calm the disorders of thy mind, by reflecting on the wisdom,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 814 pages
...this purpose ; and inordinate or unlike ones must have been not only less elegant, but unequal. /lay. This image was oblong and not oval, but terminated...rectilinear and parallel sides and two semicircular ends. Keaton . Calm the disorders of thy mind, by reflecting on the wisdom, equity, and absolute rectitude... | |
 | Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1870 - 514 pages
...refracted light fall perpendicularly upon a sheet of white paper at the opposite wall of the chamber, and observed the figure and dimensions of the solar...terminated with two rectilinear and parallel sides, and two semicirciilar ends. On its sides it was bounded pretty distinctly, but on its ends very confusedly... | |
 | sir Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1869 - 396 pages
...the solar image formed on the paper by that light. This image was oblong and not oval, but termina1ed with two rectilinear and parallel sides, and two semicircular...sides it was bounded pretty distinctly, but on its cuds very confusedly and indistinctly, the light there decaying and vanishing by degrees. The breadth... | |
 | Frederic William Westaway - 1912 - 474 pages
...refracted light fall perpendicularly upon a sheet of white paper at the opposite wall of the chamber, and observed the figure and dimensions of the solar...sides, and two semicircular ends. On its sides it was hounded pretty distinctly, but on its ends very indistinctly, the light there decaying and vanishing... | |
 | Peter Achinstein - 1991 - 346 pages
...sheet of paper. This image, writes Newton, is "oblong and not oval [as might otherwise be expected], but terminated with two Rectilinear and Parallel Sides, and two Semicircular Ends." Newton's description of the results of this experiment is, I suggest, the description of a "phenomenon."... | |
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